So I've been fixing up an old junker that performs very well for it's decrepit age, but of course, I dare not take this old geezer anywhere near YouTube for fear of a heart-attack that might lite this ancient processor ablaze...

That is until I discovered this very useful Firefox plug-in, created by lovinglinux (Ubuntu guy). Here's the link:

Edit, No longer at the Mozilla site, but still available at Softpedia:

'Flash Video Replacer' is the name. It took me all of 3 minutes to set up and I kept asking myself, "Where's the hard part?" It never came.

I strolled over to YouTube, clicked a video I am familiar with, and boom, Gxine launched, grabbed all the info, and for the first time in a decade, this old-timer played a video without a single stutter.

I've had very little success making old-timers stream well. This add-on works, so I thought I'd share. Here's the specs for grandpa:

Distro:
There are 4 versions of Puppy on this rig. The one I used for this plug-in is TurboPup Extreme V1. I used ScottJarvis' excellent Firedog 3.6.6 as my version of Firefox. Flash is 10.0.0 from the Doku site. Java is 1.6.0.22, an excellent version on datafilehost.com. Also installed on Firedog is NoScript. This plug-in works fine with NoScript, and I read also works well with Flashblock; don't know about AdBlock, but assume it's fine since these others work.

That's it on my end. It worked immediately for me on the first try. You may have to make adjustments if you're using a different Puppy, have a different version of Firefox, have a different Stand alone player, etc.

I hope this will be given a go by many out there with older machines. I'm anxious to see reports that it worked as well for others as myself.

EathrayLast edited by Eathray on Tue 31 Dec 2013, 10:45; edited 6 times in total

So I've been fixing up an old junker that performs very well for it's decrepit age, but of course, I dare not take this old geezer anywhere near YouTube for fear of a heart-attack that might lite this ancient processor ablaze...

That is until I discovered this very useful Firefox plug-in, created by lovinglinux (Ubuntu guy). Here's the link:

'Flash Video Replacer' is the name. It took me all of 3 minutes to set up and I kept asking myself, "Where's the hard part?" It never came.

I strolled over to YouTube, clicked a video I am familiar with, and boom, Gxine launched, grabbed all the info, and for the first time in a decade, this old-timer played a video without a single stutter.

I've had very little success making old-timers stream well. This add-on works, so I thought I'd share. Here's the specs for grandpa:

I had to reboot on install because FF didn't restart, but it launched fine on reboot.

I set the stream for auto, quality for low, window size for 100%, and format to favor mp4 over flv. That's it. worked fine on the first go. Took a minute for Gxine to do it's thing, but once it did, perfect.

Unfortunately, this plug-in appears to be incompatible with SeaMonkey even though I am running the latest version.
I have checked the useragent settings and found that SeaMonkey is running compatibility mode with Firefox by default.

If anyone knows of any work-arounds here to try this add-on for SeaMonkey, I would be most grateful.

Thanks,
Monsie_________________My username is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.

Flashvideoreplacer is working for me in FF 13b. It is kind of nice--it embeds gnome-mpayler, or runs it standalone, etc. Nice clear control panel for it--you can choose how to play each video. I am going to recommend to anyone having trouble playing youtube videos.

Well, I tried a few file hacks in attempt to install this add-on in SeaMonkey. Although I made some progress, the installer aborted at the last moment upon detecting that my browser was indeed SeaMonkey... So, I finally gave up --at least for now.

Instead, I decided to e-mail the developer. In the event that I get a reply, I will post an update here. For those who are interested, I have attached a copy of the e-mail message that I sent.

Given that SeaMonkey shares much code with Firefox, and, in fact, runs in compatibility mode with Firefox by default, I am hopeful that the developer will be willing and able to support SeaMonkey in a future release.

Since Adobe has chosen to abandon further flash player development for the Linux based platform, this add-on might prove to be very popular in the near future, and hence, support for other browsers would be most desirable.

1.) Is this compatible with an installed Adobe Flash
or is it an Either Or? Either one have Adoble Flash
active and can then not use this "replacer" or one
can chose which one that are active on which file?

2. My install of Adoble Flash works for the most time
and then it suddenly stall. Usually it works again
if I shut down FF and start it up again.

So if this replacer is compatible it would come in handy
at such situations?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Since Adobe has chosen to abandon further flash player development for the Linux based platform, this add-on might prove to be very popular in the near future

But presumably it is only good for playing videos - i.e. it doesn't let you use interactive Flash...

As I indicated in my first post, this can be determined by checking the useragent settings in SeaMonkey. I have included a screenshot of SeaMonkey 2.6.1 useragent settings (default) and I find those same settings in SeaMonkey 2.9.1 also.

Monsie

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_________________My username is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.

I would suggest changing the subject of this topic so that it identifies more clearly what it is.
Newly Discovered Video Assistance for Winded Old Junkers does not really describe, this is about a plugin for Firefox, that replaces Flash Player._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

I would suggest changing the subject of this topic so that it identifies more clearly what it is.
Newly Discovered Video Assistance for Winded Old Junkers does not really describe, this is about a plugin for Firefox, that replaces Flash Player.

I second what bigpup suggests here. You help many more if you get
the title being indexed by search so people know it is Firefox add on
and an alternative to Adobe Flashplayer._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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